TY  - BOOK
AU  - Teslow,Tracy
TI  - Constructing race: the science of bodies and cultures in American anthropology 
SN  - 9780511996443 (ebook)
AV  - GN50.45.U6 T47 2014
U1  - 305.80097309/04 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Century of Progress International Exposition
KW  - (1933-1934
KW  - Chicago, Ill.)
KW  - Exhibitions
KW  - Physical anthropology
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Race
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Somatotypes
KW  - Race awareness
KW  - Racism in anthropology
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Race, anthropology, and the American public : an introductory essay -- 2. Franz Boas and race : history, environment, heredity -- 3. Order for a disordered world : The Races of Mankind at the Field Museum of Natural History -- 4. Mounting The Races of Mankind: anthropology and art, race and culture -- 5. Harry Shapiro's Boasian racial science -- 6. Rejecting race, embracing man? : Ruth Benedict's race and culture -- 7. Alternatives to race? : ethnicity, genetics, biology -- 8. Conclusion
N2  - Constructing Race helps unravel the complicated and intertwined history of race and science in America. Tracy Teslow explores how physical anthropologists in the twentieth century struggled to understand the complexity of human physical and cultural variation, and how their theories were disseminated to the public through art, museum exhibitions, books, and pamphlets. In their attempts to explain the history and nature of human peoples, anthropologists persistently saw both race and culture as critical components. This is at odds with a broadly accepted account that suggests racial science was fully rejected by scientists and the public following World War II. This book offers a corrective, showing that both race and culture informed how anthropologists and the public understood human variation from 1900 through the decades following the war. The book offers new insights into the work of Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Ashley Montagu, as well as less well-known figures, including Harry Shapiro, Gene Weltfish, and Henry Field
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511996443
ER  -